Lot of Sigourney The Daily Counselor inscribed to Congressman Charles Miner More

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Lot of Sigourney The Daily Counselor inscribed to Congressman Charles Miner More
This lot consist of three books;
1859 The Daily Counselor, Personally inscribed by Sigourney to Congressman
and
Abolitionist Charles Miner as His early friend.
Signed
New Years 1860.
This is the book that makes the set. To imagine the conversations these two great minds had together?
1834 Sketches by Mrs. Sigourney
1841
Pocahontas
and other Poems, Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, inscribed by author.
MINER, Charles, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Norwich, Conn., February 1, 1780; attended the public schools of Norwich; moved in 1797 to his father's lands in Wyoming Valley, Pa., and to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in 1802; became publisher of the Luzerne County Federalist; elected as a Federalist a member of the state house of representatives and served in 1807 and 1808; moved to West Chester, Pa., in 1816; elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1829); was not a candidate for renomination in 1828; editor and publisher of the Village Record 1829-1832; returned to Wilkes-Barre in 1834; involved in the mining of the large fields of anthracite coal in the Wyoming Valley; died in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on October 26, 1865; interment in Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
During Miner's terms, slavery was still widespread in the South and West, but Northern states were already reflecting anti-slavery views. Miner presented his first anti-slavery proposal to the House on May 13, 1826.
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He introduced his plan to immediately end the slave trade in the District of Columbia and gradually abolish slavery in the capitol over a period of about ten years. Miner thought that immediate, nationwide abolition was impossible, but he hoped that if the District of Columbia could successfully abolish slavery, it would act as a “lever” to influence the rest of the country to do likewise.
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Congress adjourned before he could elaborate on the topic. He tried to readdress the plan in December 1826, but he was encouraged not to speak because the topic provoked excitement and irritation, especially among the Southern representatives.
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